Department of Plant Pathology is one of the pioneering departments in the university.
Our Vision is to be a leader in research, teaching, and extension involving plant health, while serving the changing needs of the country, the environment, and the University.
Our Goals are to offer superior education in plant pathology and plant-microbe interactions and to broaden the perspectives of plant biology in undergraduate, graduate, and public education. Our research goal is to understand microbes, plants, and their interactions in the environment in order to provide effective approaches by which plant diseases can be controlled and beneficial interactions can be maximized. Our extension and outreach goals are to integrate and extend knowledge and provide services that foster an understanding of plant diseases and that enhance plant health, food safety, a profitable and sustainable agriculture, and stewardship of the environment.

List of courses offered by the department:

Courses at Undergraduate level:

• Introduction to Plant Pathology
• Laboratory techniques in Plant Pathology
• Principles of Plant Pathology and diseases of field crops
• Diseases of field crops and disease management
• Diseases of Horticultural crops and Seed pathology
• Diseases of Horticultural crops and Seed pathology
• Clinical Plant Pathology

Courses at Graduate (Masters) Level:

List of teachers and staffs with e-mail address and fields of interest

On going research works

Management of plant diseases

• Management of Rhizome rot of zinger.
• Management of damping off of seedlings (transplanting crops).
• Management of Anthracnose of chili, Gray blight of mustard, Stemphylium blight of onion, Purple blotch of onion etc.
• Management of Sheath blight of rice
• Management of Leaf blight of wheat.
• Management of Root Knot of Eggplant with ecofriendly components.
• Management of Soil borne disease of jute with ecofriendly components.
• Management of Cercospora leaf spot of mungbean
• Management of scab and die back of citrus with ecofriendly components

Other areas

•  Study on role of mycorrhiza as a biological tool of plant disease management
•  Survey on incidence of diseases on summer tomato and summer onion
• Investigation on Seed and seedling diseases of fruit crops in Bangladesh.
• Screening of Eggplant germplasm against wilt complex.
• Screening of Rice germplasm against Sheath blight of rice.
• Inheritance study of ufra resistance and molecular characterization.
• Morphological and molecular characterization of rice tungro virus resistance genotypes